Prior to joining Monash University in 2014, Susan was the Senior Physiotherapist at the Cerebral Palsy League of Queensland. Susan supervised 18 FTE physiotherapists across Queensland and was Team leader of the Practice Support Team supporting approximately 60 OTs, SPs, SWs and PTs. Susan completed her Masters of paediatric Physiotherapy at the University of Queensland (UQ) and has completed the Basic and Advanced Neurodevelopmental Therapy courses. Susan worked as an academic coordinator at the UQ Rural Clinical School from 2003-2009.

Susan has worked in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates in rehabilitation for children and adults. She speaks some Arabic and has a healthy respect for the value of culturally responsive healthcare, education and research.

Susan studied the impact of an interprofessional student placement in community rehabilitation teams and was awarded a PhD in Interprofessional Education from the University of Queensland in 2010. She was part of a team who developed an Interprofessional Curriculum in the first Clinical School located in a large private hospital in Brisbane and has conducted training workshops in practicing interprofessionally. Susan has since been invited by Edith Cowan University, the University of Tasmania Professional Placements Unit and the Allied Health Professions Office Queensland Health to work collaboartively on developing their interprofessional education capacity through workshops and presentations. Susan was part of the team that designed the multiprofessional education curriculum at the first clinical school in a private hospital for UQ.

Susan completed the Harvard Macy Medical Education course in 2006 at UQ and the Leadership and Innovation and Assessment courses at Monash University in 2019.

Susan was a Director of the Board of the Australian Rural Health Education Network (ARHEN) in 2019 and a Director of the Board of Management of Headway Gippsland, 2015-2019. She is a member of the Australian Physiotherapy Association (Paediatrics, Disability and Educators Groups), Services for Australian Rural and Remote Allied Health (SARRAH), Australia and New Zealand Health Professional Education (ANZAHPE), Emirates Physiotherapy Society and an exceutive member of the International Physiotherapy History group.